Video Analytics for Vision Zero

Traffic-related accidents are among the top ten reasons for fatalities worldwide. This project partners with jurisdictions to identify traffic details that impact traffic planning and safety. Check out the traffic dashboard from Rocket’s video analytics that is live at Bellevue’s Traffic Management Center! The dashboard alerts the traffic authorities on abnormal traffic volumes. The project has won the following awards.“Safer Cities, Safer People” US Department of Transportation AwardInstitute of Transportation Engineering 2017 Achievements Award

2) Wide Area Networking

Companies like Microsoft have multiple services with worldwide clients that continuously measure performance. Using this large scale data, orders of magnitude more than prior studies, we seek to better understand network performance and create a continuous performance map of the Internet. [Odin @ NSDI’18] [Via @ SIGCOMM’16]

Bio Sketch

Bio: Ganesh Ananthanarayanan is a Researcher at Microsoft Research. His research interests are broadly in systems & networking, with recent focus on live video analytics, cloud computing & large scale data analytics systems, and Internet performance. He has published over 30 papers in systems & networking conferences such as USENIX OSDI, ACM SIGCOMM and USENIX NSDI. His work on “Video Analytics for Vision Zero” on analyzing traffic camera feeds won the Institute of Transportation Engineers 2017 Achievement Award as well as the “Safer Cities, Safer People” US Department of Transportation Award. He has collaborated with and shipped technology to Microsoft’s cloud and online products like the Azure Cloud, Cosmos (Microsoft’s big data system) and Skype. He is a member of the ACM Future of Computing Academy. Prior to joining Microsoft Research, he completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in Dec 2013, where he was also a recipient of the UC Berkeley Regents Fellowship.